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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T190000
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SUMMARY:Remaking the social contract? Pension reform and protest in Russia
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, January 24\, 2019\n5:30pm - 7:00pm\n1512 International Affairs Building (420 W 118th St\, 15th floor)\, Columbia University\n\nPlease join the Harriman Institute and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a panel discussion examining the Kremlin’s recent attempts at reforming the pension system in Russia.\nThis event is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of our Russian Studies & Policy event series.\n\nPanelists:\n\nKristy Ironside\, Assistant Professor in History and Classical Studies at McGill University.\n\nKaterina Tertytchnaya\, Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at University College London.\n\nAndrei Kolesnikov\, Senior Fellow and Chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.\n\nModerator: Alexander Cooley\, Director of the Harriman Institute\, Columbia University.\n\nOn the heels of securing his fourth nonconsecutive term as president of Russia in March 2018\, Vladimir Putin introduced plans to increase the retirement age to 65 from 60 for men and to 63 from 55 for women. The announcement sparked an immediate wave of protests from all corners of Russian society: pensioners\, students\, systemic political parties and the democratic opposition. Critics pointed out that with a life-expectancy of 66\, most Russian men would not live to see retirement under the new system. In an unusual move\, Putin appeared on television in August 2018 to personally defend the proposed changes as absolutely necessary in light of Russia’s labor force makeup and long-term budget forecasts. The new legislation passed a month later\, but not before damaging Putin’s approval ratings.\n\nPlease join the Harriman Institute and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for a panel discussion examining the Kremlin’s recent attempts at reforming the pension system in Russia. Our panel\, consisting of a historian\, political scientists and analyst will put the pension reform and the social response to it in context. Russia’s old-age pension system is one of the last vestiges of the social contract formed between the state and its citizens in the Soviet Union and is\, for many Russians\, an inviolable guarantee. The beneficiaries of the current system also form the bedrock of Putin’s constituency and paying pension arrears was one the crowning achievements of Putin’s ascension to power in the early 2000s. Yet the system is in desperate need of reform to address changes in Russia’s economy and demography. Many Russians worry\, however\, that the reform will be mismanaged and that they will pay into a system which they will never be able to use. As Putin begins his last constitutionally permitted term as president\, tough economic decisions loom on the horizon that will require further renegotiation of the relationship between the Russian state and society.\n\nKristy Ironside is a historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. She is currently finishing her first book\, tentatively entitled Money and the Pursuit of Communist Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union\, 1945-1964. This book looks at how money\, an ideologically problematic ‘vestige of capitalism\,’ was mobilized by the Soviet government in the intertwined projects of recovering from the Second World War’s damage and building a prosperous communist society. This project has spun off articles looking at related economic and social phenomena in Soviet history\, exploring the balance of coercion and incentives\, Stalinist and Khrushchev-era economic thinking\, and the nature of the postwar Soviet welfare state. Her articles have appeared in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History\, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review\, Slavic Review\, Europe-Asia Studies\, and The Journal of Social History (forthcoming).\n\nKaterina Tertytchnaya is a political scientist working on protests and authoritarian politics. Her current book project draws on evidence from Putin’s Russia to examine how non-democratic incumbents manage public opinion and deflect blame when performance is poor. Prof. Tertytchnaya’s research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review\, Journal of Politics and Political Behavior.\n\nAndrei Kolesnikov is a senior fellow and the chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. His research focuses on the major trends shaping Russian domestic politics\, with particular focus on the fallout from the Ukraine crisis and ideological shifts inside Russian society. Kolesnikov also works with the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy and is a frequent contributor for Vedomosti\, Gazeta.ru\, and Forbes.ru. He sits on the board of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation and is a member of the Committee of Civil Initiatives (the Alexei Kudrin Committee).\n\n \n\n
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/remaking-the-social-contract-pension-reform-and-protest-in-russia/
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Outside Events,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T135000
DTSTAMP:20190122T004415
CREATED:20181214T173652Z
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SUMMARY:Russian Elites and Western Sanctions: A Political Economy Under Strain?
DESCRIPTION:Western financial and legal systems provide essential protection for Russian elite assets and reputation. Sanctions threaten continued access to these services. If sanctions intensify\, they may disrupt a set of bargains between the Russian state\, oligarchs and Western interests that have helped stabilise Putin’s political economy. What choices face Russia’s elites\, what power do they have to protect their interests\, and what are the implications for Russia’s future and Western policy?\n\n \n\nDr. Nigel Gould-Davies is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House and teaches at Mahidol University in Thailand. He taught at Oxford University before joining the British Foreign Office\, where his roles included head of the Economic Department in Moscow\, Ambassador to Belarus\, and project director in the Policy Planning Staff. From 2010-14 he was head of Policy and Corporate Affairs for BG Group in Central and Southeast Asia. His book “Tectonic Politics: Global Risk in an Age of Transformation” will be published by Brookings in 2019. He holds an M.Phil. from Oxford\, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/russian-elites-and-western-sanctions-a-political-economy-under-strain/
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190201T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190201T140000
DTSTAMP:20190122T004415
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SUMMARY:Thugocracy: A Way to Think about Trump and Russia
DESCRIPTION:U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictments and other prosecutorial filings point to unprecedented and unusual interactions between Trump campaign personnel and Russian political and oligarchic circles. These appear to suggest broad Russian elite participation in the project to make Trump president. Yet there is a long history of transnational\, organized political and criminal enterprise surrounding the Trump "project." A wider\, socio-political analysis of Trump's networks can provide nuance to the standard narratives about "Trump-Russia."\n\nTaking advantage of the voluminous legal documentation of Donald Trump's business and political history\, Thugocracy provides a social-theoretical frame to analyze the nature of Trump's connections to Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. It offers a "theory of the case" of this relationship that situates Trump\, from the very start of his career\, in an ever-growing network of trans-national\, often criminal\, investors\, entrepreneurs\, and agents of political PR (including\, notably\, "black PR"\, to adopt the Russian term). The Trump Organization's mob-enriched projects of the 1980s and 1990s harmonized well with and were dramatically amplified in their potency by emergent Soviet and post-Soviet networks and\, in particular\, by the hyper-charge of post-Soviet capital outflows.\n\nThe argument that emerges from this analysis centers around the concept of "thugocratic governmentality\," which describes the complex goals of allied regimes: unlawful capital accumulation\, money laundering\, and transfer\, state capture\, deregulation of natural resource extraction\, the ascendance of informality\, the undermining of the rule of law\, voter manipulation and suppression\, the stifling of civil society\, and the delegitimization of professional spheres of journalism\, science\, and higher education. Political disruption\, confusion\, and the spread of a popular sense of chaos are part and parcel of thugocracy\, and signs of both its tactics in action and its political achievements.\n\nAnalyzing thugocratic governance as a longstanding transnational phenomenon of networked oligarchies and interconnected political-economic projects allows us to explore the "Trump-Russia" phenomenon without falling into the now well-demarcated rhetorical furrows characterized by many as Russophobic conspiracy theory.\n\n \n\nNancy Ries is Christian A. Johnson Chair in Liberal Arts Studies\, Director of the Division of University Studies\, and Professor of Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University. Among her publications are the 1997 book\, Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika\, which won the Barbara Heldt Book Prize\, and a 2009 article "Potato Ontology: Surviving Post-Socialism in Russia which won the Cultural Anthropology Horizons Prize. She has published on state capture and the Russian mafia\, everyday life theory and traumatic violence\, and nuclear weapons. She was co-editor\, with Bruce Grant\, of the Cornell Press series "Culture and Society after Socialism\," and helped create the online museum\, "Communal Living in Russia." She is currently researching contemporary Russian and American nuclear discourse\, and is writing a book-length essay on Thugocracy.
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/thugocracy-a-way-to-think-about-trump-and-russia/
LOCATION:19 University Place\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T160000
DTSTAMP:20190122T004415
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SUMMARY:Russian Women's Writing Workshop: The 1850s in Russia and Evdokiia Rostopchina's Novels of Opposition
DESCRIPTION:This chapter is part of a larger study of nineteenth- century Russian women novelists that extends from 1830\, the inception of the Russian classic novel\, to 1880\, the advent of Modernism. The project grew out of several initial questions: Why are there no canonical nineteenth-century Russian women novelists? Are there nineteenth-century Russian women novelists\, now forgotten\, who are good\, and worth re-evaluating or recovering? What does it mean to say that a novel or novelist is “good”? Is it possible that new interpretive strategies could help make some otherwise opaque Russian women’s novels legible and meaningful to twenty-first century readers?\n\nThe workshop will focus on the 1850s\, a particularly rich and eventful decade in Russian history\, literary history\, and cultural politics. Among other developments—Realism\, radical criticism\, and public discussions of the Woman and Serf questions—the 1850s marked the appearance of novels by such women authors as Evgeniia Tur\, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia\, Iuliia Zhadovskakaia\, Avdotiia Panaeva\, Anastasiia Marchenko\, and Aleksandra Kobiakova. I have found especially intriguing\, however\, Evdokiia Rostopchina’s original\, complex\, and defiant response to the literary politics of the 1850s in her three novels\, Dnevnik devushki\, Schastlivaia zhenshchina\, and U pristani\, all of which appeared between 1850 and 1857.\n\nRadical critics – Panaev\, Chernyshevsky\, Dobroliubov\, Nekrasov—and their Soviet successors ridiculed\, disparaged\, and reviled not only these novels but Rostopchina herself. This chapter proposes a less androcentric consideration of these works\, one that questions nineteenth-century canonical aesthetics and understandings of what it means to say that a novel is “good.” Such an approach\, I believe\, not only accounts for the present day obscurity of Rostopchina’s novels; it also will show that in contesting\, reinventing\, and reformulating men’s novelistic conventions\, Rostopchina created three highly original\, elegantly crafted\, resonant works that twenty-first century readers may find well worth their attention.\n\nDiana Greene received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Columbia University\, and was New York University’s Slavic Studies Librarian from 1995 until her retirement in 2017. She coedited with Toby Clyman Women Writers in Russian Literature (1994) and is the author of Insidious Intent: An Interpretation of Fedor Sologub's The Petty Demon (1986)\, Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2004)\, and its Russian edition\, Inoe litso romanticheskoi poezii: russkie zhenshchiny-poety serediny XIX veka.(2008). Her articles have addressed Russian women poets and prose writers\, Russian domestic ideology\, Russian science fiction\, and Slavic librarianship. She is presently working on a study of nineteenth-century Russian women’s novels from 1830 to 1880.
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/russian-womens-writing-workshop-the-1850s-in-russia-and-evdokiia-rostopchinas-novels-of-opposition/
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Will Smiley-From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire\, Russia\, and International Law
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 5th\n\n5:00pm - 7:00pm\n\nRichard Ettinghausen Library\, 255 Sullivan St.\n\nCommentators:\n\nProf. Yanni Kotsonis and Dr. Karin Loevy\n\nThe Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East\, but they also birthed a novel concept--the prisoner of war. For centuries\, hundreds of thousands of captives\, civilians and soldiers alike\, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires\, destined for either ransom or enslavement. But in the eighteenth century\, the Ottoman state and its Russian rival\, through conflict and diplomacy\, worked out a new system of regional international law. Ransom was abolished; soldiers became prisoners of war; and some slaves gained new paths to release\, while others were left entirely unprotected. These rules delineated sovereignty\, redefined individuals' relationships to states\, and prioritized political identity over economic value. In the process\, the Ottomans marked out a parallel\, non-Western path toward elements of modern international law. Yet this was not a story of European imposition or imitation-the Ottomans acted for their own reasons\, maintaining their commitment to Islamic law. For a time even European empires played by these rules\, until they were subsumed into the codified global law of war in the late nineteenth century. This story offers new perspectives on the histories of the Ottoman and Russian Empires\, of slavery\, and of international law.\n\nWill Smiley is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He is a historian of the Middle East and of international and Islamic law\, with a particular interest in the Ottoman Empire.\n\nKarin Loevy is the manager of the JSD Program at NYU School of Law.\n\nYanni Kotsonis is Professor of History & Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU.\nCo-Sponsors: Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia\, and NYU Law School\n \n\n
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/book-talk-with-will-smiley-from-slaves-to-prisoners-of-war-the-ottoman-empire-russia-and-international-law/
CATEGORIES:Book presentation,NYU Events,Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T180000
DTSTAMP:20190122T004415
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190118T171700Z
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SUMMARY:Taboo in Russia: banned or suppressed issues-Lecture and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Any political regime should be judged not by the official propaganda narrative\, but by the silences\, the subjects that are omitted in the public discourse. In contemporary Russia\, vast layers of issues and problems are suppressed or outright banned. As a result\, the very issue of strategy for development and the future of the country is not discussed at all\, and neither the government\, nor the opposition are capable of formulating the tasks and main challenges of the moment.\n\nDmitry Bykov does not fit neatly in a category: he is a poet; a writer whose work was distinguished by several prestigious literary awards; an educator; a journalist\, columnist and radio commentator; a walking fountain of creative ideas (and some pranks); and\, last\, but not least\, he is involved in the Russian politics as a prominent member of the opposition movement.\n\n \nPlease click here to RVSP for this event
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/taboo-in-russia-banned-or-suppressed-issues-lecture-and-qa/
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T190000
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SUMMARY:New York City - Russia Public Policy Panel: What do we know about Russia’s 2016 Twitter operation during the US Presidential election campaign?
DESCRIPTION:One of the most important – and enduring – stories to come out of the US 2016 Presidential election campaign was the potential role played by Russia’s “Internet Research Agency” in (potentially) attempting to influence political behavior surrounding the election though the use of digital (dis)information campaigns. On October 17\, 2018\, Twitter released a collection of over 10 million tweets that it reported were produced by IRA controlled accounts.\n\nSince that time\, teams of scholars have been hard at work analyzing the content of these tweets. Our first 2019 New York City – Russia Public Policy series event\, jointly sponsored by the NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and Columbia University’s Harriman Institute\, with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, features a panel of five scholars who have been examining these tweets over the past three months:\n\nModerator: Joshua A. Tucker is Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia\, a co-Director of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory\, and a co-author/editor of the award-winning politics and policy blog The Monkey Cage at The Washington Post. He is Professor of Politics\, affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies\, and affiliated Professor of Data Science at New York University.\n\nCody Buntain is a postdoctoral researcher with SMaPP. His primary research areas exist at the intersection of data science in social media and the social sciences\, specifically how individuals engage socially and politically and respond to crises and disaster in online spaces. Current problems he is studying include cross-platform information flows\, temporal evolution/politicization of topics\, misinformation\, and information/interaction quality.\n\nKate Starbird is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. Kate's research is situated within the field of crisis informatics—the study of the how ICTs are used during crisis events. One aspect of her research focuses on how online rumors spread during natural disasters and man-made crisis events. More recently\, she has begun to focus on the online propagation of disinformation and political propaganda. Kate earned her PhD from the CU-Boulder in Technology\, Media and Society and holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.\n\nPatrick Warren is an Associate Professor of Economics who has been at Clemson since 2008. Before coming to Clemson\, Dr. Warren studied at MIT\, earning a PhD in Economics (2008). Dr. Warren's research focuses on the operation of organizations in the economy-- for-profit and non-profit firms\, bureaucracies\, political parties\, armies\, and propaganda bureaus.\n\nDarren Linvill is an Associate Professor of Communication who has been at Clemson since 2008. Darren previously studied civil discourse\, online and in the college classroom. Along with Patrick Warren\, he currently does work exploring Russia's Internet Research Agency and the strategies and tactics it has employed on social media.\n\nLeon Yin is a research scientist at NYU's Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab and a research affiliate at Data & Society's Media Manipulation Initiative. He develops techniques and tools used in the study of social movements\, online influencer networks and Internet culture. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry and Computer Science from NYU\, and is a core developer for the urlexpander and youtube-data-api Python packages.
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/new-york-city-russia-public-policy-panel-what-do-we-know-about-russias-2016-twitter-operation-during-the-us-presidential-election-campaign/
CATEGORIES:New York Russia Public Policy Seminar,NYU Events,Spring 2019,Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T135000
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SUMMARY:Informational Autocrats
DESCRIPTION:The model of dictatorship that dominated in the 20th century was based on fear. Many rulers terrorized their citizens\, killing or imprisoning thousands\, and deliberately publicizing their brutality to deter opposition. Totalitarians such as Hitler\, Stalin and Mao combined repression with indoctrination into ideologies that demanded devotion to the state. They often isolated their countries with overt censorship and travel restrictions. However\, in recent years a less bloody and ideological form of authoritarianism has been spreading. From Hugo Chávez's Venezuela to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary\, illiberal leaders have managed to concentrate power without cutting their countries off from global markets\, imposing exotic social philosophies\, or resorting to mass murder. Many have come to office in elections and preserved a democratic facade while covertly subverting political institutions. Rather than jailing thousands\, these autocrats target opposition activists\, harassing and humiliating them\, accusing them of fabricated crimes\, and encouraging them to emigrate. When they do kill\, they conceal their responsibility.\nThe emergence of such softer\, non-ideological autocracies was unexpected. How do the new dictators survive without using the standard tools of 20th century authoritarians\, and without the traditional legitimacy that supported historical monarchs\, or even the revolutionary charisma of anti-colonial leaders?\n\nIn work with the economist Sergei Guriev\, Dr. Treisman explores the modus operandi of such regimes. The key\, they argue\, is the manipulation of information. Rather than terrorizing or indoctrinating citizens\, rulers survive by leading them to believe that they are competent and benevolent. Having won popularity\, they score points at home and abroad by mimicking democracy. Violent repression\, rather than helping\, undercuts the desired image of able governance. At the Jordan Center\, he will present his findings on “informational autocrats” with a special focus on one of the pioneers of this form: Russia’s Vladimir Putin.\n\n \nDaniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California\, Los Angeles and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. A graduate of Oxford University (B.A. Hons.) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1995)\, he has published four books and articles in leading political science and economics journals including The American Political Science Review and The American Economic Review\, as well as in public affairs journals such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. His research focuses on Russian politics and economics as well as comparative political economy\, including in particular the analysis of democratization\, the politics of authoritarian states\, political decentralization\, and corruption. A former lead editor of The American Political Science Review\, he has served as associate editor or on the editorial boards of the journals Post-Soviet Affairs\, Comparative Political Studies\, Economics and Politics\, Politeia\, and the Russian Journal of Economics. He has served as a consultant for the World Bank\, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development\, and USAID. In Russia\, he is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Higher School of Economics and a member of the Jury of the National Prize in Applied Economics. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford) and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)\, and has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the US and the Smith Richardson Foundation. At UCLA\, he has served as acting director of the Center for European and Russian Studies.\nHis latest book\, The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (The Free Press\, 2011) was one of the Financial Times’ “Best Political Books of 2011”. Since 2014\, he has been the director of the Russia Political Insight Project\, an international collaboration funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, to investigate political decisionmaking in Putin’s Russia. He is the editor of The New Autocracy: Information\, Politics\, and Policy in Putin’s Russia (Brookings Institution Press 2018).\nThis event is co-sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the NYU Department of Politics.\n
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/informational-autocrats/
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T163000
DTSTAMP:20190122T004415
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SUMMARY:To Analyze or Not: The Documentary Prose of Varlam Shalamov and Lydia Ginzburg
DESCRIPTION:Varlam Shalamov and Lydia Ginzburg are both writers of innovative documentary prose that seeks to capture the experiences of the Soviet subject. They came of age in the 1920s and carried that era’s sense of the crisis of the novel into the decades that followed\, rejecting the novel’s fictional mode\, traditional structure\, and cult of literary heroes. While this talk will reveal the common ground in the way the two writers frame the most important themes of their time and strive to uncover the behavioral “regularities” (zakonomernosti) of the typical person living through war and totalitarian terror\, it focuses on the strikingly different tools they employ to understand and represent their quasi-fictional characters. The paper forms part of a larger project on documentary prose written in response to catastrophic experiences of war\, terror\, and the camps. It will contain a coda on Svetlana Alexievich\, a writer of a different generation who adopts a different approach to documentary prose\, building on and modifying the tradition of her predecessors.\n\nEmily Van Buskirk is Associate Professor of Slavic Literature and Director of the Russian and East European Program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She is author of Lydia Ginzburg’s Prose: Reality in Search of Literature (Princeton University Press\, 2016)\, which co-won the MLA Scaglione Prize and was awarded the AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Studies. She has co-edited\, with Andrei Zorin\, two additional volumes on Ginzburg (Lydia Ginzburg’s Alternative Literary Identities and a Russian edition of Ginzburg’s blockade prose)\, and has edited and revised the English translation of Notes from the Blockade (for Random House). Her current project is a study of documentary prose that seeks to respond to the catastrophic experiences of the Soviet twentieth century.
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/to-analyze-or-not-the-documentary-prose-of-varlam-shalamov-and-lydia-ginzburg/
LOCATION:19 University Place\, 2nd Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T135000
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SUMMARY:A Loyal Middle Class: How Post-Communist Autocrats Use the State Sector to Secure Support
DESCRIPTION:The question of how society's class structure affects the prospects for democracy has long been a core preoccupation in the study of politics. One of the most enduring arguments in this literature holds that growth of the middle class gives rise to democratization. This view is echoed in canonical approaches to democratization\, including both political economy's redistributive theories and cultural values-based theories. Yet remarkably little systematic research examines middle class attitudes toward democracy in contemporary autocratic settings. Will growing post-communist middle classes enhance their countries' prospects for democracy? Or standing the conventional logic on its head: Might it be the case that certain modes of state-supported middle class growth\, in fact\, delay democratization? Drawing lessons from the post-communist countries\, this talk will examine how autocracies use the institution of public sector employment to secure the support of key middle class constituencies. The evidence shows that support for democracy and the prospects for mobilized democratic transition hinge considerably on the middle classes' degree of state dependence.\n\n \n\nBryn Rosenfeld is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include comparative political behavior\, with a focus on regime preferences and voter behavior in nondemocratic systems\, development and democratization\, post-communism\, and survey methodology. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review\, the American Journal of Political Science\, and Sociological Methods & Research. She is a recipient of the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation and a Best Article Award honorable mention\, both by the American Political Science Association's Comparative Democratization Section. Prior to joining the faculty at USC\, she was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College\, University of Oxford. She has also worked for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Opinion Research\, where she designed studies of public opinion in the former Soviet Union. She earned her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2015.\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Department of Politics.
URL:http://jordanrussiacenter.org/event/a-loyal-middle-class-how-post-communist-autocrats-use-the-state-sector-to-secure-support/
LOCATION:19 University Place\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:NYU Events,Occasional Series,Spring 2019
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